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The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises
The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
SIN THE GREATEST EVIL▪ › USE.SINNE THE GREATEST EVIL▪ › USE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When the debt seems little, we are ready and apt to undervalue a pardon. But, when sin appears exceeding sinful, this doth make us value mercy, prize a pardon.
When sin is seen the greatest Evil, Mercy and Pardon will be apprehended the greatest Good.
3. This puts us into the nearest disposition, To forsake sin. As he, who extenuates sin; is resolved to continue in sin; so he, who truly aggravates sin, desires to be rid of it.
3. This puts us into the neerest disposition, To forsake sin. As he, who extenuates sin; is resolved to continue in sin; so he, who truly aggravates sin, desires to be rid of it.
4. Besides, It breeds a Displacency with our selves, when we consider, How ill we have dealt with God.